Maintenance engineering
J Mathew and B T Kuhnell
4 points * 22 lecture hours, 18 tutorial hours, 4 laboratory hours * Second semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: MEC3404
The basic concepts of industrial maintenance engineering. Topics include maintenance planning and scheduling, organisation of maintenance resources, quantitative techniques in maintenance management; queue theory; network planning and Monte Carlo simulation; preventive and condition-based maintenance, failure analysis, reliability engineering, computerised maintenance management and appraising maintenance performance.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 90% * Laboratory work: 10%
Prescribed texts
Mathew J and Kuhnell B T Lecture notes in maintenance engineering Dept Mechanical Engineering, Monash U, 1990
Recommended texts
Kelly A Maintenance planning and control Butterworths, 1984